This is an amazing, comprehensive site, covers every aspect of information fluency! Includes: Resource Kit contents (which include curriculum, links, workshops, interactives, and indices that categorize all site content by information fluency competency and ISTE-NETS). Teacher-Librarians MUST check this site out.
TRAILS "TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on sixth and ninth grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for library media specialists and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students."
Library Games
Information Literacy Game
Online Info Lit Game that you may alter to fit your library. (Categories: Choose Your Resource, Searching/Using Databases, Cite Your Sources/Avoid Plagiarism, Library Wild Card) I would LOVE to see someone make a version of this game for upper elementary students.
Flying High With Research A webquest to review information literacy skills for upper elementary students. Student "pilots" earn their "research wings" by completing a series of activities (including using the OPAC, navigating electronic databases, using the Internet safely, evaluating websites, note-taking and the Big 6).
How to Do Research (Kentucky Virtual Library): "The site guides your [elementary] students through the process of researching. It includes media, such as books, magazines & newspaper articles as well as websites. This website is useful, when you are planning your school’s research skill sequence across grade levels, as well as an individual grade level unit plan." Source: Langwitches Blog
S.O.S. for Information LiteracyS.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource for educators that promises to make a significant contribution to enhancing the teaching of information literacy skills to students in K-16. The project is currently in its final stage of development in which S.O.S. is being expanded for use by high school and college level educators.
Internet Safety
Get Your Web License(from PBS) - appropriate for upper elementary-middle school students.
All About Explorers was developed by a group of teachers as a means of teaching students about the Internet. Although the Internet can be a tremendous resource for gathering information about a topic, we found that students often did not have the skills to discern useful information from worthless data. So we set out to develop a series of lessons for elementary age students in which we would demonstrate that just because it is out there for the searching does not mean it is worthwhile...Because we wanted to make a point about finding useless information even in a site which looked at first to be fairly well put together, all of the Explorer biographies here are fictional. While many of the facts are true or based on truth, many inaccuracies, lies, and even downright absurdity are mixed in indiscriminately."
Use the quiz feature of PhotoPeach to create a review of any curricular content.
This example is a review of a field trip experience. How will you use it in your library?
Table of Contents
Information Fluency Meets Web 2.0
21st Century Information Fluency- Full Circle:
This is an amazing, comprehensive site, covers every aspect of information fluency! Includes: Resource Kit contents (which include curriculum, links, workshops, interactives, and indices that categorize all site content by information fluency competency and ISTE-NETS). Teacher-Librarians MUST check this site out.Search Tools
Database Widgets
Information Literacy Assessment
Information Literacy WebQuests/Lessons
Internet Safety
Internet Evaluation
All About Explorers
All About Explorers was developed by a group of teachers as a means of teaching students about the Internet. Although the Internet can be a tremendous resource for gathering information about a topic, we found that students often did not have the skills to discern useful information from worthless data. So we set out to develop a series of lessons for elementary age students in which we would demonstrate that just because it is out there for the searching does not mean it is worthwhile...Because we wanted to make a point about finding useless information even in a site which looked at first to be fairly well put together, all of the Explorer biographies here are fictional. While many of the facts are true or based on truth, many inaccuracies, lies, and even downright absurdity are mixed in indiscriminately."Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
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Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
PhotoPeach
Use the quiz feature of PhotoPeach to create a review of any curricular content.This example is a review of a field trip experience. How will you use it in your library?
Screen Capture Applications
40 Free Screen capture tools and applicationsTry these tools to develop training and instruction:
JingProject free download for Mac and PC
ScreenCastle
GoView
ScreenHunter
Layers (screen capture for the Mac)
ScreenFlick
ScreenToaster
JogtheWeb (share, show, comment on your own Web)
Camtasia Studio (commercial)
Screencast-o-matic
Capture Fox (for the PC)
AppleBlog article on screen capture